| Term | Definition |
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| Adamant | Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding |
| Admonitory | expressing cautionary advice or warning |
| Adroit | Dexterous; deft. skillful and adept under pressing conditions |
| Affable | Friendly, easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable |
| Ardor | Fiery intensity of feeling; passion or zeal |
| Aspire | v. To have a great ambition or ultimate goal |
| Astute | adj. Smart; having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with one's own concerns |
| Baffled | adj. frustrated or checked, confused or perplexed; stymied |
| Benevolent | adj. Characterized by or suggestive of doing good; kind and generous |
| Burly | - Heavy, strong, and muscular; husky |
| Ceremonial | adj. Of, appropriate to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; pertaining to a ritual. |
| Charlatan | n. A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a fraud |
| Circumspect | adj. Heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent and careful about reputation |
| Clinical | adj. Detached and objective in tone; instructive, like an encyclopedia |
| Colloquial | n. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal in tone; unique to particular areas. |
| Concede | v. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit ; to yield in opinion |
| Connoisseur | n. A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine or culinary arts. |
| Contentious | adj. Given to contention; quarrelsome |
| Corpulent | adj. Excessively overweight |
| Craven | adj. Characterized by abject fear; cowardly |
| Cynical | adj. Scornful of the motives, virtue, or integrity of others |
| Deplore | v. To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn |
| Didactic | adj. 1. Intended to instruct. 2. Morally instructive. 3. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively. |
| Diffident | adj. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid. |
| Dogged | adj. Stubbornly persevering; tenacious. |
| Domicile | n. 1. A residence; a home. 2. One's legal residence. |
| Ecstatic | adj. Being in a state of ecstasy; enraptured, enthusiastically happy. |
| Effusive | adj. Showing unrestrained or excessive emotional expression; gushy |
| Egotistical | adj. Conceited, characterizing a boastful person; selfish, self-centered |
| Elated | adj. Exultantly proud and joyful. |
| Elegiac | adj. Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning; expressing sorrow for the lost past |
| Embezzle | v. To take (money, for example) for one's own use, in violation of a trust. |
| Exuberant | adj. Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy |
| Facetious | adj. Playfully jocular; teasing, not meant seriously |
| Flippant | adj. Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert |
| Frugal | adj. thrifty, not spending money unwisely; using caution with finances |
| Guffaw | n. A hearty, boisterous burst of laughter. |
| Incisive | adj. Penetrating; clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression |
| Incredulous | adj. Skeptical; disbelieving |
| Indignant | adj. characterized by anger aroused by something unjust, mean, or unworthy |
| Inflammatory | adj. Arousing passion or strong emotion, especially anger, belligerence, or desire |
| Ingratiating | adj. Overly pleasing; agreeable |
| Insipid | adj. Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty |
| Insolent | adj. Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant |
| Jovial | adj. Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer |
| Laconic | adj. Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise |
| Lament | v. To express grief for or about; mourn |
| Lugubrious | adj. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree. |
| Melancholic | adj. Affected with or subject to melancholy |
| Moralistic | adj. Characterized by or displaying a concern with morality; didactic, overly instructive |
| Nostalgic | adj. having a bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past |
| Noteworthy | adj. Having significance, value, or consequence; important |
| Obdurate | adj. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent |
| Objective | adj. Keeping an open mind, using facts only instead of personal opinion |
| Obstinate | adj. Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, an opinion, or a course of action; obdurate. |
| Patronizing | adj. Acting as a patron to; supporting or sponsoring. 2. Using, as a customer, especially on a regular basis. 3. Treating in a condescending manner. |
| Penurious | adj. Ungenerously or pettily unwilling to spend money |
| Pilfer | v. To steal (a small amount or item). |
| Pithy | adj. Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
| Poignant | adj. Piercingly painful, especially to the emotions |
| Pompous | adj. Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious |
| Provident | adj. Providing for future needs or events, as if coming from a higher source |
| Prudent | adj. Wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense |
| Purloin | v. To steal, often in a violation of trust |
| Redolent | adj. Having or emitting fragrance; aromatic, often producing memories of the past; evocative |
| Reminiscent | adj. Having the quality of or containing reminiscence, ruminating upon the past |
| Reticent | adj. Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself; quiet and shy |
| Sardonic | adj. Scornfully or cynically mocking |
| Satiric | adj. Pertaining to a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit; descriptive of satire, poking fun at something to produce social change |
| Singular | adj. 1. Being only one; individual. 2. Being the only one of a kind; unique |
| Snigger | n. A snicker |
| Somber | adj. Dark; gloomy. Dull or dark in color. |
| Spinster | n. A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying. |
| Staid | adj. Characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; sober |
| Sullen | adj. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky |
| Supercilious | adj. Feeling or showing haughty disdain |
| Taciturn | adj. Habitually untalkative |
| Taunting | adj. Reproaching in a mocking, insulting, or contemptuous manner |
| Terse | adj. Brief and to the point; effectively concise |
| Turgid | adj. Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent |
| Urbane | adj. Polite, refined, and often elegant in manner; showing sophistication, perhaps of the city; cosmopolitan |
| Vernacular | n. The standard native language of a country or locality |
| Yearn | v. To have a strong, often melancholy, desire; to pine or desire something strongly |
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